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Yulian is Chief of Staff at NEAR Protocol and was previously Chief Operating Officer at Aurora.
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Kendall Cole
Kendall Cole is currently Head of Product at NEAR. Previously, he was responsible for the Kauri.io project at ConsenSys, and was also involved in the founding of OilFront, EntryWire and other projects.
Illia Polosukhin
Illia Polosukhin is currently the Co-Founder and CTO of NEAR Protocol, a sharded mobile-first blockchain protocol. Illia is passionate about Machine Intelligence and Natural Language Understanding and is committed to making the world a better place through software and data.
Ian Petras
Ian Petras is the head of marketing at Aurora Labs and previously was a senior marketing executive at Ledger. He is a graduate of Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Uppsala University in Sweden and Stockholm School of Economics.
Anton Bukov
Anton Bukov is the co-founder of the 1inch Network. He has been involved in software development since 2002 and in DeFi since 2017. Prior to 1inch, he contributed to several crypto projects, including MultiToken, NEAR, and Synthetix.
Marieke Flament
Marieke Flament was previously CEO of Near Foundation and Chief Marketing Officer of Circle. He holds a master's degree in information security from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Pratik Gandhi
Pratik Gandhi is an investor at Social Graph Ventures. He was previously Head of Marketing and Head of Growth at Covalent.
Lorny Pfeifer
Lorny Pfeifer is the Grants Lead at Safe and was previously the community Manager for NEAR Protocol.
NiMA Asghari
NiMA Asghari is the founder of Seed Club. Previously, he served as Head of Community Incubation at NEAR Protocol.
Arto Bendiken
Arto Bendiken, Master Toolsmith of the Cypherpunk Division, is Tech Lead for EVM at the NEAR Protocol. He is also a hacker, maker, and entrepreneur who has been programming since 1993. He is the creator of The Unlicense, and currently works at the curious intersection of smart contracts and drone swarms. He is also involved with Conreality Game, Hebron IT Academy, and CECG.
Evgeny Kuzyakov
Evgeny Kuzyakov is a co-founder of FastNear and was previously a senior Software engineer at NEAR. He worked on VR at Facebook and explored social areas such as Google+ at Google. He spent a lot of time improving his programming and problem-solving skills and won the gold medal at the 2008 ACM ICPC World Finals.